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(NoModeL) W. M. PEGRAM.

SCAR]? 0R TIE' HOLDER.

No. 305,220. Patented Sept. 16, 1884.

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Maine fm/nlon ilN-ITEI) STATES PATENT OFFICE.

W'ILLTAM M. PEGRAM, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

.SCARF OR TIE HOLDER.

SLSCIFTCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 305,220, dated September 16, 1884.

Application tiled February 6. 1884. (No model.)

To (07L whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM M. PEGRAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, State of Maryland, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Scarf or Tie Holders, of which the following is a specification. 7

My invention, as shown in Figure 1, is a simple device for preventing the ordinary scarf or tie worn by men from either riding up or turning, the collar from becoming unbnttoned, and forming the barb on which the neckband of the scarf or tie is secured in position when in wear. It is made of wire, metal, whalebone, or any other material suitable or equivalent, with the top of the device so bent as to form a loop, A, Fig. 1, which fits under and against the shank of the collar-button. The loop has an offset backward, B, Fig. 2, to admit of its being easily adjusted to the collar-button. The ends 0 (L are pointed to admit of its being inserted in the paste'board foundation or shield of the scarf or tie at its back, as in D D, Figs. 3 and 4, one end, 0, Fig. 3, being left in position to form the barb, which holdsthe neckband secure, and the other end, 0, Fig. 3, being bent upward and under the foundation or shield to keep the holder in place. It also has a shoulder, G, Fig. 2, which helps to keep the holder immovably in position. The loop A, Fig. 1, being held under the shank of the collar-button and against and across the button-holes of thecollar, prevents any possibility of the latter becoming unbuttoned.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As an improved article of manufacture, a scarf or tie holder made of a single piece of wire or other suitable material, bent to form the central loop, A, to fit under the collar-button, with offset B, shoulder G, and two pointed ends, one of which serves as a barb for holding the neckband in position, and the other end adapted to be bent upward beneath the foundation or shield to secure the holder in place, all substantially as described, and for the purposes set forth.

WM. M. PEGRAM.

\Vitnesses:

W. T. DAVIDSON, JOHN K. WHITE. 

